Автор: Hal Vaughan
Название: Sleeping With the Enemy
Издательство: Chatto & Windus
Год: 2000
Формат: mobi+pdf
Размер: 9 mb
Страниц: 304
Язык: English
Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.
She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the
tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets
and cut their hair. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric, elevated
the waistline, and created bell-bottom trousers, trench coats, and
turtleneck sweaters.
In the 1920s, when Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her
workrooms, she had amassed a personal fortune of $15 million and went on
to create an empire.
Jean Cocteau once said of Chanel that she had the head of "a little
black swan.” And, added Colette, "the heart of a little black bull.”
At the start of World War II, Chanel closed down her couture house and
went across the street to live at the Hôtel Ritz. Picasso, her friend,
called her "one of the most sensible women in Europe.” She remained at
the Ritz for the duration of the war, and after, went on to Switzerland.
For more than half a century, Chanel’s life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in vagueness and rumor, mystery and myth.
